Liberal Political News

I know the issue of political spying and not just because my lawful, nonviolent activism got me spied on by local, state and federal "intelligence" agencies .

They don't say that the country is getting more polarized because income inequality.

Mi'kmaq woman Susanne Patles in prayer at an anti-fracking protest, as New Brunswick RCMP confer, June 9 2013.

After losing the Hispanic vote by a whopping 44 points last November, the Republican National Committee commissioned an autopsy report to examine what went wrong, a much-needed effort that NCLR applauded.

Behind the radio mic for Ed, and joined by great, independent progressive journalists Ari Berman , Marcy Wheeler , David Dayen ; Plus rants, callers, news of the day and more!... 'Big Bag' loses in L.A.; Study: 2/3rds of fossil fuels must stay in ground; Autism linked to air pollution again ; Keystone XL on the cheap; AK hotter than FL?!; PLUS ... (more)

Fool me once, shame on you. But fool me three times... There's nothing left to say, is there? President Barack Obama's administration announced last Thursday that it will now arm Syrian rebels, since it has proof that President Bashar al-Assad's regime has been using chemical weapons against them.

Fox News has fired paid contributor and market analyst Tobin Smith for receiving compensation to promote the stock of Petrosonic Energy, a violation of network policy.

When Dick Cheney slithered out of his cave Sunday to call Edward Snowden a traitor - a claim, given its slimy source, Snowden promptly called "the highest honor you can give an American" - it was only the latest in an ongoing, vengeful, bizarre and often irrelevant campaign of vitriol by politicians, pundits and much of the mainstream press against ... (more)

The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto dismissed the epidemic of sexual assault in the military, claiming that efforts to address the growing problem contributed to a "war on men" and an "effort to criminalize male sexuality."

It was a couple of months ago when this journalist was warned that rioting was likely.

Microsoft said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cybercrime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have been used to steal more than $500 million from bank accounts worldwide.

So New York Times columnist Tom Friedman and former Times executive editor Bill Keller are both saying that the massive NSA spying program on all Americans' communications is a needed thing because if they don't do it, then maybe there could be another major terrorist strike on the US, and democracy would be erased in the US.

In Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, the streets are full of fake shop-fronts, designed to give the impression that empty stores are still selling things.

I traveled to Brazil last September to investigate the preparations for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.

For defense contractors, the government officials who write them mega checks, and the hawks in the media who cheer them on, the name of the game is threat inflation.

The fracking industry is putting the squeeze on water-strapped farmers in the central United States according to a new analysis released Monday by the Associated Press.

A majority of Australia's remaining fossil fuels 'must be left in the ground and cannot be burned' if society is to have any hope of curbing the existential threat posed by climate change, Australian scientists declare in a chilling government report released today.

What I was really trying to do was educate men and women from the possibilities that leads us to rape, apparently that just did not happen considering the number of people who hated it.

"How do you make abortion funny?" That was a key question mulled at a major conservative gathering Friday on how to make social conservatism appealing to young people, after an election where Republicans got trounced in the battle for millennial voters .

One day, while working with a trowel at an archeological dig, Tana French glanced over at the nearby woods and wondered, "what if three kids went into the woods and only one came out? What would it do to him growing up?" Within that sentence, which appears in a 2012 interview that Tana French gave to the The Guardian , is the secret of every one of ... (more)